Healing Body, Self and Soul - Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy by Jerry Perlmutter

Author:Jerry Perlmutter [Perlmutter, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Treatment Interventions

The therapist starts at where the patient presents feelings: their social and work limitations. She explores the presenting problem to help him make it much more specific. The therapist reflects back the patient’s feelings so that he experiences and owns these feelings. Eventually this increases the strength of his ego, i.e., his capacity to experience his inner life and, eventually, his capacity to take action. The reflection of the feelings back to the patient also initiates the formation of an important bond between the patient and therapist.

Then she moves to increasing the patient’s low level of energy. She uses the backward bow and forward arch as a part of this effort. The therapist works to deepen the patient’s shallow breathing which also increases his level of energy. The patient experiences more warmth, and this is important. She proceeds gradually.

Eventually patient action ensues from the build-up of energy. She utilizes the Awareness Cycle to increase the patient’s identification with and ownership of his inner experiences and actions. She supports the patient in noticing the kinesthetics of his movements, so he gets an awareness of what his body is doing in space. Her aim is to increase his ownership of his movement, which is a way of helping him to deepen the foundation of his ego.

The therapist helps the patient to produce expressive movement by having them notice and expand the smaller movements they make spontaneously. She supports him in making sounds as he moves. This helps him to use his body more and to loosen up his muscles that have been held so tight. His emotions also emerge more as he does expressive movement. His capacity to experience pleasure is enabled. In this way he increasingly develops relationships with food, clothing, work objects and love objects. These help to fill out his ego. She uses deep touch on the muscles of his neck, shoulders and the back, followed by soft touch to these muscles.

She then addresses his eye block. She uses loose arm and body-swinging exercises to ease into the eye work gradually. The patient allows his head to swing too with his eyes open. This intervention relaxes his eyes, which counters his frozen, terrified look. When the patient is ready for more focused and catalytic work, she does the Eye Opener.

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